σύλληψις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō) + -σις (-sis)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sýl.lɛːp.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsyl.le̝p.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsyl.lip.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsyl.lip.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.lip.sis/
Noun
σύλληψῐς • (súllēpsĭs) f (genitive συλλήψεως); third declension
- (the act of) seizing, arresting
- conception
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σῠ́λληψῐς hē sŭ́llēpsĭs |
τὼ σῠλλήψει tṑ sŭllḗpsei |
αἱ σῠλλήψεις hai sŭllḗpseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σῠλλήψεως tês sŭllḗpseōs |
τοῖν σῠλληψέοιν toîn sŭllēpséoin |
τῶν σῠλλήψεων tôn sŭllḗpseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σῠλλήψει tēî sŭllḗpsei |
τοῖν σῠλληψέοιν toîn sŭllēpséoin |
ταῖς σῠλλήψεσῐ / σῠλλήψεσῐν taîs sŭllḗpsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σῠ́λληψῐν tḕn sŭ́llēpsĭn |
τὼ σῠλλήψει tṑ sŭllḗpsei |
τᾱ̀ς σῠλλήψεις tā̀s sŭllḗpseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῠ́λληψῐ sŭ́llēpsĭ |
σῠλλήψει sŭllḗpsei |
σῠλλήψεις sŭllḗpseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- σύλληψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σύλληψις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “σύλληψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- apprehension idem, page 36.
- arrest idem, page 41.
- seizure idem, page 750.